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Mervyn King’s Northern Soul Bail-Out
Mervyn King's plan to bail-out struggling musical fad Northern Soul has provoked fierce criticism from Britpop, Disco & Skiffle.
Commutable Offences
So there I was, driving home from work the other afternoon, smoking a cigarette and half listening to Radio 4's 'PM' programme on my tinny but temperamental car stereo. They were discussing somebody or other’s reaction to something or other, but I wasn't really paying too much attention. You know how it is. I was stuck in traffic, but it didn’t get me down. I’m not what you might call an angry driver. I don’t tend to suffer from bouts of road rage, although I have had the occasional en-street sulk and highway huff. In any case, it wasn’t as [...]
Lists of Fury
"Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list"- Elvis Costello: 'Strict Time'As I write this, there’s a programme on TV called The 50 Greatest Documentaries. It follows the traditional, time-honoured format of these crappy list shows in that it seems to take up a ninety-seven hour slab of prime-time TV scheduling [I’m nocturnal: midnight is prime-time for me]. To be fair, it’s on More4 - the UK home to Jon Stewart's Daily Show, The West Wing & Father Ted - so it’s not as bad as it could be. For one thing, [...]
Nigella
It seems that everywhere I go this week I see Nigella Lawson. I'm out buying a newspaper and she's staring out at me from the magazine racks. I switch on the TV and there she is, doing that whole soft-focus suggestive thing in the kitchen that's part Delia Smilth, part Sylvia Kristel. It seems TV's pouty domestic goddess is plugging a brand-new series on the BBC, Nigella Express. Good on her, I say. Here's what bothers me about Nigella Lawson: her father is former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson. Now, far be it for me to criticise anyone's parenting [...]
